Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@auravulpes to be fair, $1.97 for that hangar of hangers is a really great price.

did you know it's possible for a PC's hard disk to have a capacity of zero bytes? :3 ... :<

today's #techsupport patient: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device"

NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth:
https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-11.5-billion-miles-from-earth

hacking over a connection with a ping latency of 122,400,000 ms.

@Lyude i'm so distrustful of youtube ads that i spent five minutes staring at it and wondering what it wanted me to install.

@quirk i force myself to never drink coffee after 12 for exactly this reason.

@quirk same.

i confess it took me a while to figure out why i couldn't mount the windows drives in linux after shutting down windows but could after rebooting windows & letting grub choose linux instead.

@troubleMoney @mavica 🎵
row, row, row your bot
down the data streams,
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
simulated dreams
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i don't think it's related, but an almost-coincidentally timed incident of microsoft being microsoft was just brought to my attention: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/05/windows_10_binged/

@Russwilde@mastodon.social good find. it's possible, but the timing between microsoft's bing-up and my customer's experience was a bit off, and search results at the time said to try restarting 2 or 3 services or just rebooting first.

fast startup can be disabled, but manually rebooting once a week or so for decent daily use does the job, too.

there's no permanent solution for that because, since #windows 8, microsoft cheated to get decent startup and shutdown times: the fast startup feature.

when you tell windows to shut down, it goes into a hybrid sleep/hibernation state instead, & the next startup is basically a wake-up instead of a true kernel startup.

reboots don't do that. windows goes through a proper shut-down & actual startup.

go long enough without a proper reboot, & windows does strange things. this is one.